Reducing Absenteism in the Workplace

For as long as employers have had employees, they've had a problem with unauthorised employee absenteeism. Granted this problem has grown over the years, but along with this growth have come better ways to manage the problem.

5 Steps to Reducing Absence in the Workplace

Really Helpful Tips you can do to reduce absence in the workplace.

Reducing Absence with Simply Personnel

How Simply Personnel actually helps you to implement an absence reduction policy.

How a Poor Appraisal Policy Affects Your Organisation

Managers today are busier than ever. With all the tasks that need to happen, it's easy to put conducting employee appraisals off until a later time. What's even worse is that when management is so busy and/or improperly trained, those appraisals that are conducted often fail miserably at their primary goal of motivating employees.

Dealing with Disciplinary and the Employment Tribunal

Have you had the unfortunate pleasure of defending your organisation's actions in front of the mighty Employment Tribunal? If this hasn't happened yet, congratulations! You must be doing something right. Or maybe you've only recently opened the doors to your brand new venture. Or maybe you run a one-person operation. Or maybe, you've simply been lucky so far.

Failure to Check Work Visas is Dangerous

Employers in the UK are supposed to make a reasonable attempt to check that every non-EU foreign national has a valid work visa before being offered a job. Employers who don't do this face certain consequences. They can be prosecuted, they can be required to pay huge fines, and the biggest offenders risk incarceration. But the consequences don't end there. When these types of checks are overlooked, the welfare of the entire country is jeopardized.

The Benefits of CRB Checks Outweight the Hassle

How did you feel when you heard news that during the past 36 months the Criminal Records Bureau successfully kept over 60,000 fearsome men and women away from our most vulnerable citizens? If you're like most people, that news came as a welcome relief. Interestingly, many also found the news unsettling.